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Who among the breathing hasn't looked up an ex at one time or another? No, it's not likely a smart move but impulse control is one of those things learned the hard way — as in knowing when not to eat that second or third doughnut just because it's Friday and it's there, lonely, getting more stale by the minute sitting next to the empty coffee pot in the office break room and, well, you plan on having just a salad for lunch.

In Eva Cassady's The Adultery Diet (Pocket Books, 336 pages, $14, paperback) — chosen for its alluring title and picture of fancy chocolate truffles on the cover — Eva, the fortysomething narrator of this faux-memoir...